Wilkinson ready for swansong

Paris – Toulon captain Jonny Wilkinson will take to the field in the Top 14 final against Castres on Saturday for the final match of his professional career, but he insists he’s had lots of practice for this moment.

The former England fly-half, who famously kicked the last-gasp winning drop goal against Australia to hand his country their only World Cup victory in 2003, says he’s always played every rugby match as if it was his last.

So for that moment to finally arrive, Wilkinson says it all feels normal.

“It’s a relatively simple mindset and everything because it’s been the same throughout my career because I’ve always only ever worried about and concerned myself with the game that’s coming,” he said…

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